Two men were arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed a rapper and injured three others, according to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.

The drive-by shooting happened June 7 at the intersection of Oliver and Hall streets around 9:30 p.m., said deputies.

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According to deputies, investigators arrested two Anderson men. Royres Antwan Patterson, 26, was charged with murder, attempted murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Terrance Mandrell West, 39, was charged with accessory after the fact of murder and accessory after the fact of attempted murder.

Patterson surrendered himself to authorities at the Sheriff’s Office, said deputies.

Both suspects appeared before an Anderson County magistrate Saturday morning. The magistrate denied bond for West. Patterson remains incarcerated without a bond set. Patterson's murder charge requires a bond hearing to take place before a general sessions judge.

According to deputies no other arrests are expect

ed. Both men are being held at the Anderson County Detention Center.

According to Lt. Sheila Cole of the Anderson County Sheriff's Office the shootings happened at three separate locations.

House hit by gunfire, man wounded

Cole said deputies were first called to a house on South McDuffie Street in Anderson at 4:50 a.m.

A woman living there told deputies that she woke up to the sound of gunfire striking her house, Cole said.

According to the incident report, the deputy determined that the home was struck by two bullets and one of them was found in the bedroom.

Cole said it appears that the gunfire that hit the house also hit a man who was leaving the PB gas station nearby. The man was shot in the leg. According to the incident report, he told a deputy that the bullet may have been fired from a vehicle.

One happened at the intersection of West Whitner and Appleton streets. A woman told deputies she was driving through the area and was shot twice in the shoulder. She initially told law enforcement that she was driving herself to the hospital, but she ended up needing treatment from emergency services personnel while on the way to the hospital.

The other incident happened at the intersection of Oliver and Hall streets.

One victim, a 20-year-old man, survived, but the other victim, Brandon Willingham, 20, died.

"Brandon was an angel," said Willingham's aunt, Audrea Summerall. "He was a sweet child that would help anybody and it wasn't fair what happened to Brandon."

Relatives said Willingham was an up and coming rapper with a lot of fans and many of them showed up at the hospital. Willingham's rapper name was Jugg Money.

"I just never imagined it being my brother. I mean stuff happens, but he was friends with everybody," said Willingham's sister, Breshanae Lewis.

The initial investigation did not show any connection between the shooting incidents, according to Cole.

All of the shootings remain under investigation.

"It's awful. You can't even call the law no more, because you're liable to get killed if you call the law and then you get killed if you don't call the law. There's nowhere to run here," Summerall said. "Violence could be maintained not to get as bad as it is in Anderson County, but it's not."